Cuomo Accused of Demeaning Black Assembly Speaker

Governor Cuomo is being called out by black leaders and members of his own party for his lack of respect toward Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie. Heastie recently made history as the Assembly’s first black speaker, but Cuomo has been dismissing him as nothing more than a puppet of the recently indicted ex-Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Sources recently told the Daily News that Cuomo believes Silver is still running operations in the Assembly, referring to Heastie as Silver’s “instrumentality” in keeping power.

The insinuation that Heastie serves as little more than Silver’s puppet led Al Sharpton to label Cuomo’s comments as “very disturbing.”

Another legislator claims that Cuomo is “developing a real blind spot on race issues.”

State Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin recently stated that if Cuomo were a Democrat “he’d be getting called a racist right now” for his comments.

Making matters worse, was an incredibly ill-advised photo of Governor Cuomo engaging Heastie in a bear hug which some of insisted was meant to demean the Speaker.

About the AuthorRusty Weiss

Rusty Weiss is a freelance journalist focusing on the conservative movement and its political agenda. He has been writing conservatively charged articles for several years in the upstate New York area, and his writings have appeared in the Daily Caller, American Thinker, FoxNews.com, Big Government, the Times Union, and the Troy Record. He is also Editor of one of the top conservative blogs of 2012, the Mental Recession.